Bowles / Chrome Dome
(If It’s New) Split cassette $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Experimental indie rock, lovely fragile atmospheric tunes, and pop tunes with a lot of psych recorded live in 2008, performed by Matthew P Hopkins, Chris Schueler, and Mary Macdougall. On the flip, a recording from 2008, also live, by the late Shaun South’s initial two-piece formation. Chrome Dome’s chaotic, abrasive and spirited synth-driven no-wave / punk comes together as the set progresses, revealing a glimpse of the pop sensibilities they would become known for. Edition of 100. C55.
The Bowles
(Kye - KYE705) 7-inch $11.25 (Out-of-stock)
The briefly extant Australian trio of Matthew P. Hopkins, Christopher Schueler (R.I.P.) and Mary MacDougal came together in 2009 and plied their craft across the patchwork of warehouses, attics and D.I.Y. artspaces connecting the Blue Mountains of New South Wales to inner city Sydney, before imploding later that same year. This six-track overview, recorded live to Dictaphone in Sydney, consists of murky cassette montages, strung-out 3am ballads and exquisite-corpse-style constructs that unify and define an original voice few have heard. Includes color postcard. Edition of 350.